Sillypedia (and a rant about web tech)

Talking about Sillypedia. I'm a dev on-and-off for the last 20 fucking years. God I'm aging. Hard to say I was a developer at 14 when roughly learning CSS/HTML for MySpace. But it was the start of my journey. And I'm a cranky old person. I'm 34. Not that old. And I hate many trends in software development - especially in web. So React / JS Ecosystem (Lifetime Pact) by SillyPedia caught my eye. I was just hoping for someone to rag on one of my most hated web technologies. I haven't used React or gotten into JS Ecosystems. I refused to even use Jquery back in the day because of the overhead of including it in your webpage. I'm reasonably skilled with vanilla javascript. But React - and other modern web technologies - are responsible for so much of the slowness of the modern web. Oh and by slowness, I mean a page taking maybe 1-3 seconds to load. When I was first doing serious web dev, my goal was to get a response to the browser in 50ms (when I had a VPS. Shared Hosting isn't fast…